Get up and go
Absentee ballots for the Nov. 4 election for Grovetown City Council and the District 4 Columbia County Commission seat are available at the Board of Elections Office in the Columbia County Government Center. For more information, call 868-3355.

Columbia County newsmakers
Navy Seaman Recruit Robert H. Haag, Jr, son of Teresa and Robert Haag of Evans, Ga., recently graduated from the Basic Enlisted Submarine Course at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, Conn.

Flu-shot clinics: A healthy partnership
Columbia County already is in the unexpected throes of campaign season, with unplanned elections coming up in two weeks for County Commission and Grovetown City Council. And flu season isnt far away.

Coaches reluctantly accept new region
Columbia County's Class AAAA high schools were prepared to circle the wagons, but after absorbing the initial shock of the Georgia High School Association's region realignment vote last week, Lakeside, Greenbrier and Evans seem resigned to their fate.

Sports briefs
Augusta Junior Olympic Volleyball Club tryouts will be Nov. 11 and 13 at The Family Y on Wheeler Road. in Augusta. Pre-registration is required. Information and registration forms are available at www.eteamz.com/augustajuniors or e-mail augustajuniors@yahoo.com.

Evans feels vindicated with region softball crown
The Evans High School softball team endured two seasons as the unwelcome guest in Region 7-AAAAA, so it's only fitting that the Lady Knights made their region opponents pay for their lack of hospitality.

Champion Cyclones
The Columbia County Cyclones won the 12-and-under United States Specialty Sports Association Let 'Em Play Baseball Tournament held Oct. 11-12 at Riverside Park in Evans by defeating the Aiken Fangs and Martinez Lumberjacks in the championship round.